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Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience : Causal Explanations, Mechanisms and Experimental Manipulations /
How do cognitive neuroscientists explain phenomena like memory or language processing? This book examines the different kinds of experiments and manipulative research strategies involved in understanding and eventually explaining such phenomena. Against this background, it evaluates contemporary acc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Epistemic studies ;
37. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Figures
- 1. Introduction
- Part I: Stage Setting
- 2. Braining Up Psychology
- 3. The Life of Mechanisms
- 4. The Interventionist View
- 5. Intermezzo: What's at Stake?
- Part II: Puzzles
- 6. The Unsuccessful Marriage
- 7. Causation vs. Constitution
- 8. Beyond Mutual Manipulability
- 9. Interventionism's Short-Sightedness
- 10. Intermezzo: Well Then?
- Part III: Shopping for Solutions
- 11. Fixing Interventionism
- 12. Mere Interactions
- 13. Excursus: A Perspectival View
- 14. Mere Interactions at Work: A Catalog of Experiments
- 15. Conclusions
- References
- Key Terms
- Index.